[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3428 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3428

  To amend the Small Business Act to give small business contracting 
     credit for certain small businesses located in United States 
                  territories, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2019

 Ms. Velazquez (for herself, Ms. Plaskett, Mr. Sablan, Mrs. Radewagen, 
and Mr. San Nicolas) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Small Business Act to give small business contracting 
     credit for certain small businesses located in United States 
                  territories, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Contracting Credit Equality Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS CONTRACTING CREDIT FOR CERTAIN SMALL BUSINESSES 
              LOCATED IN UNITED STATES TERRITORIES.

    Section 15(x) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(x)) is 
amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by inserting ``and Covered 
        Territory Businesses'' after ``Puerto Rico Businesses'';
            (2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or a covered territory 
        business'' after ``Puerto Rico business''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Covered territory business defined.--In this 
        subsection, the term `covered territory business' means a small 
        business concern that has its principal office located in one 
        of the following:
                    ``(A) The United States Virgin Islands.
                    ``(B) American Samoa.
                    ``(C) Guam.
                    ``(D) The Northern Mariana Islands.''.
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